From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 215661384B4 for ; Sat, 5 Dec 2015 09:57:31 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5092F21C010; Sat, 5 Dec 2015 09:57:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smarthost03a.mail.zen.net.uk (smarthost03a.mail.zen.net.uk [212.23.1.20]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 54BEEE0875 for ; Sat, 5 Dec 2015 09:57:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [82.69.80.10] (helo=wstn.localnet) by smarthost03a.mail.zen.net.uk with esmtpsa (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1a59ai-0005oV-CH for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Sat, 05 Dec 2015 09:57:20 +0000 From: Peter Humphrey To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Console fonts revisited Date: Sat, 05 Dec 2015 09:57:19 +0000 Message-ID: <2172714.PlEVkCSQDm@wstn> User-Agent: KMail/4.14.8 (Linux/4.1.12-gentoo; KDE/4.14.8; x86_64; ; ) In-Reply-To: <20151204185810.GA3905@waltdnes.org> References: <72479272.Iazj106paV@wstn> <1893427.zLYdoBPIus@wstn> <20151204185810.GA3905@waltdnes.org> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Originating-smarthost03a-IP: [82.69.80.10] X-Archives-Salt: 961cac67-95a3-4978-b6c8-cf53b4b02244 X-Archives-Hash: 717126c0ba10f77388e5cb556fd60520 On Friday 04 December 2015 13:58:10 waltdnes@waltdnes.org wrote: > Speaking of console fonts, is there a 24 pixel-wide font available, or > are there font-editors that can easily double or triple the width of a > font? I have a 1920x1080 monitor, and 8-pixel-wide fonts are unreadable > with a 240-column-wide display. I currently have... > > consolefont="sun12x22" My monitor is 27" at 1920x1080. I don't know of a font 24 pixels wide - that's twice the width you and I are using; I have ter-122n from terminus- fonts, which I find pleasant and legible. I tried the Sun fonts but disliked them. (That's putting it mildly!) > ...in /etc/conf.d/consolefont. Remember to run... > > rc-update add consolefont boot > > ...to make it take effect. That's 160 columns across, and readable, but > still too much. A 24-pixel-wide font would give me 80 columns across. That sounds to me too much like going backwards 25 years :) -- Rgds Peter